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China unveils ‘world’s first’ brain-like AI, 100x faster on local tech

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Researchers at the Chinese Academy of Sciences’ Institute of Automation in Beijing have introduced a new artificial intelligence system called SpikingBrain 1.0. Described by the team as a “brain-like” large language model, it is designed to use less energy and operate on homegrown Chinese hardware rather than chips from industry leader Nvidia. “Mainstream Transformer-based large language models (LLMs) face significant efficiency…

Nudges in food delivery apps could help to reduce carbon dioxide emissions

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Researchers at the University of Bonn provided study participants with feedback on the CO2 emissions of their menu choices. Credit: Photo: Lisa-Marie Mayer Can small changes in the design of food delivery apps encourage people to choose more climate-friendly meals? Researchers at the Institute for Food and Resource Economics (ILR) at the University of Bonn…

Petitioner Yang Guoliang pulls back the blackout curtain used to provide privacy from nearby police security cameras and lights during an interview at his home in Changzhou in eastern China's Jiangsu Province, on Dec. 13.

US tech companies enabled the surveillance and detention of hundreds of thousands in China

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Yet the Yangs say they are not criminals. They are simply farmers trying to beg Beijing to stop local officials from seizing their 1 1/2 acres of land in China’s eastern Jiangsu province. “Every move in my own home is monitored,” Yang said, sitting behind black curtains that block him from the glare of police…

How the AP uncovered US big tech’s role in China’s digital police state | National News

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BEIJING (AP) — Over the past quarter century, American tech companies to a large degree designed and built China’s surveillance state, playing a far greater role in enabling human rights abuses than previously known, the Associated Press has found. AP journalists spoke to more than 100 sources, scoured tens of thousands of documents, and obtained…

Silencing science: How the government’s war on climate research makes us all less safe

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“WE HAVE THE BODY BAGS READY.” Though it was more than 25 years ago, I still feel the chill that ran through my body in a conference room in the wetlands of Northern California. I was a graduate student on a multi-university, interdisciplinary wetland restoration project team. We, a group of scientists from the south…

Pentagon-funded research at colleges has aided the Chinese military, a House GOP report says

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WASHINGTON — Over a recent two-year period, the Pentagon funded hundreds of projects done in collaboration with universities in China and institutes linked to that nation’s defense industry, including many blacklisted by the U.S. government for working with the Chinese military, a congressional investigation has found. The report, released Friday by House Republicans on the…

The role of healthy lifestyle categories and score trend in managing hypertension among hypertensive adults

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Study design and participants We obtained data from the 2021 nationwide STEPS survey conducted by the NCD Research Center in Iran. The detailed design protocol and methodology of the STEPS study 2021 have been described elsewhere19. Briefly, the World Health Organization introduced the STEPS studies according to its framework for NCD risk factors surveillance, assessment,…

China Is Building a Brain-Computer Interface Industry

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Given these and other recent milestones, Peng says it’s realistic to think that at least one BCI system could gain approval in China by 2027. Minmin Luo, director of the Chinese Institute for Brain Research (CIBR) in Beijing, agrees that the country is well on its way to meeting the goals set out by the…

Yuri Teselko Is the New Face of Ukrainian Fashion: Ethical, Intelligent, and Unapologetically Local

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8 While much of the fashion world is still looking west, the numbers tell a different story: interest in Eastern European fashion has surged by 34% in global online searches over the past two years, according to Lyst Insights. And as sustainable fashion becomes more than a trend – it’s a demand – there’s a…

How Similar are the U.S. and Chinese Playbooks?

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In July, both the United States and China put forward their national visions for AI development and governance through their own AI Action Plans. Washington’s plan leans into the rhetoric of AI dominance and transactional dealmaking to advance U.S. national interests. In stark contrast, Beijing has pitched the world on a vision of AI governance…